The McDonald
brothers were known first as The Tourists then as Red Cross
at the beginning of their illustrious career. Also pictured are
Ron Reyes whose next stop was singing lead vocals for Black Flag
and Greg Hetson who found greater fame in the Circle Jerks and Bad
Religion.Photo
- Birrer

Johnette Napolitano, years before Concrete
Blonde (circa 1980) at Club 88. Michael Murphy on drums. Jim Mankey
(unpictured) was the third member of Dream 6. Posh Boy first met
Johnette when she worked as a receptionist for Leon Russell at his
Paradise recording studio in North Hollywood. Later, Johnette worked
at legendary Gold Star Studio in Hollywood, literally across the
street from the Posh Boy office located in the Alco pressing plant.
At one time, Johnette voluntarily catalogued every Posh Boy master
tape.

Rik L Rik at Music Plus
in Whittier, 1978 with Flipside crew, for his second in-store appearance
to promote the release of the F-Word! live album.

David Hines
died in 1994 in a single car accident on I 15 between Las Vegas
and the California high desert town of Barstow. David was my engineer,
collaborator and confidant for an incredible 2 years from the time
in May 1980 when he came in to rescue my Nuns project to when, in
late 1982, he stormed out of a session with one of the bands recording
for the Rodney on the Roq Vol. 3 album. In between we mined the
mother lode of southern California punk rock, raising the standard
for technical excellence by a considerable degree. As a producer
I would find the groups, meet with them in pre-production (usually
in a rehearsal garage) then bring them into the studio where we
would record the material we had mutually agreed upon. We soon had
a factory assembly line going and it suited the label's purposes
for us to work very quickly and not to suffer fools and allow them
to waste precious studio time. The Adolescents' classic Amoeba
was recorded and mixed in just 2 hours. The fact that quality recordings
resulted from this frenetic activity was due to David Hines' expertise
as a recording engineer. That the teenage musicians were able to
play on their own recordings was also mainly due to David's expertise
as a professional musician. If the producer needed the musicians
to play or sing a part differently for effect, it was David who
usually translated the producer's desires into terms those on the
other side of the glass partition could grasp.

Jerry Koskie, Simpletones
(1979)

The Simpletones, outside The Whisky,
late 1978. Photo
- Jenny Lens

David Javelosa - Los Microwaves
& Baby BuddhaPhoto
- Technowiz

Unit 3 & VenusPhoto
- Ed Colver

Youth Gone
Mad

Paul "Ena"
Kostabi - Youth Gone Mad, Psychotica

The group 391. A
Nuns off-shoot, in 1979 they recorded their more mainstream rock
at Leon Russell's Paradise studio. 2 good things came out of the
sessions : Jeff Olener found someone to produce the soon-to-be-reformed
Nuns and Posh Boy met the wonderfully loyal, talented Johnette Napolitano,
then working as a receptionist/studio booker. L to R: Brett Valory
(drums - brother of Journey's Ross Valory), Danny Machine (bass),
Jackson Weir III (guitar, vocals) Jeff Olener (l. vocals).
Photo
- Birrer